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20 years ago

GNU tools for NiosII

Hello, I am looking for information about application building without using NiosII IDE and Altera HAL. I'd like use GNU tools only. Does anybody have experiences with direct using GNU...
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20 years ago

The simplest thing you can do to build your application without the ide is to create a shell script containing something like:

nios2-elf-gcc -O2 -o <project.elf> <source file.c> <another source file.c>

Of course you can use options other than -O2 if appropriate.

You&#39;ll need some startup code, so you should probably copy crt0.S from the HAL into your project before modifying it, and it will be easier to start from a HAL generated linker script.